Friday, October 9, 2009

A Place For Everything...

There is another reason why bringing my plants back inside causes me to question my sanity. I have to find places to put them all, relocating lots of the plants that remained indoors in the process. “But Karen715," you say. “Why not just put them all back where you had them last winter? Move both the indoor and the outdoor plants to their original spots.”

::Lowers eyes, mumbles sheepishly::

Well, you see, there is the matter of all the new plants I acquired during the spring and summer. Click the pictures for larger views.

Five Hedera helix cultivars. Philodendron brandtianum. Eight Haworthias (these were divided among three dish gardens.) An orange flowered Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. A Codiaeum that is already in trouble. Portulacaria afra, one plain and one variegated. Aloe ‘Walmsley’s Blue.’ And last but not least, a NOID Sedum. There is also the possibility that I am forgetting something.

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Although this blog is (mostly) about my houseplants and garden, it is also about my life. (You've been warned.) While I hope that at least some of what I write is of practical interest, the main focus of Life Among the Leaves is on the feelings inspired by growing and caring for plants.

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Karen715 is a New Yorker relocated to the Midwest. As such, she maintains that the proper name for sweetened carbonated beverages is Soda, not Pop. She lives among the leaves with her loving husband and a mischievous cat. On occasion, she has been referred to as a "Crazy Plant Lady," an epithet she embraces wholeheartedly.